{"id":11238,"date":"2016-02-26T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11238"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:56:04","slug":"zen-internet-ranked-56th-in-the-sunday-times-100-best-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/zen-internet-ranked-56th-in-the-sunday-times-100-best-companies.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen Internet Ranked 56th in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochdale-based UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a> has been ranked 56th in the 2016 Sunday Times list of the 100 Best Companies, which ranks firms by the happiness and motivation of their workforce.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall more than 1,000 companies entered this year&#8217;s awards and some 250,000 employees, including management staff, were surveyed. By contrast Zen employs around 400 people and apparently a lot of those enjoy their job because the ISP ended up ranking 56th overall, which is enough to grant them an award for being in the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that last year saw Chess Telecom rank 3rd, but we don&#8217;t yet know if they or any other telecoms and broadband providers made it into this year&#8217;s top 100 to sit beside Zen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Caroline Taylor, Director of Human Resource at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are proud to be recognised as a best company to work for. At Zen we work to three key principles \u2013 happy staff, happy customers and happy suppliers \u2013 so our people are our greatest asset and we have a strong focus on creating a working environment where our people can genuinely thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Zen are thrilled to have achieved our two-star accreditation which ranks our company alongside well-respected household names like Adobe UK, American Express, Nationwide, Skipton Building Society and Zurich Insurance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly the full results table hasn&#8217;t yet been uploaded, but it should become visible <a href=\"http:\/\/appointments.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/article\/best100companies\/\" target=\"_blank\">on this page<\/a> in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet has been ranked 56th in the 2016 Sunday Times list of the 100 Best Companies, which ranks firms by the happiness and motivation of their workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,472,98],"class_list":["post-11238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-awards","tag-business","tag-zen-internet"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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